Six faculty members receive “2016 COE Seed Funding Awards”

Six faculty members in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) have received “2016 COE Seed Funding Awards.” Only 14 proposals were chosen from among 36 submitted proposals after a review by UIC’s College of Engineering (COE) Executive Board members and the COE Administrative Council members.

The six ECE awardees are: Professors Natasha Devroye, Besma Smida, Hulya Seferoglu, and Daniela Tuninetti for “On the Art of Communicating Highly Reliable Short Packets with Low Latency.” Professors Besma Smida and Mojtaba Soltanalian for “ComRaDe: A fully-integrated Communication, Ranging and Detection system.” Professor Amit Trivedi for “Unclonable, Robust, and Channel Adaptive Secret-Key Generation using Neuromorphic Peripherals for Energy-Constrained Networks.” The review criteria is based on leveraging, significance, approach, and feasibility. Funds are for the support of exploratory research to be accomplished by the investigator(s) in one year.